

Google Translate is a free online language translation service that supports 90 languages, according to Google. The state minister said that 65,000 Bangla words were added to Google Translate on February 21, the second highest after Spanish on that day.īangladesh Open Source Network's general secretary Munir Hossain said that anyone could add new words or sentences to it by going to the Google Translate website.

Palak said that the inclusion of so many words on the Internet in a single day would be a new record. The initiative, christened "Banglar Jonnyo Char Lakh" (400,000 for Bangla), is being jointly organised by Bangladesh's ICT division, Bangladesh Computer Council and Google Developer Group Bangla. "We'll take Bangla on top by adding 400,000 words to Google Translate on March 26 with participation from everyone from home and abroad," he said. "To put Bangla on top of everything, we're going to create history on the Independence Day," said State Minister for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Zunaid Ahmed Palak, according to a report. The Bangladesh government will add 400,000 new Bangla/Bengali words to Google Translate on its Independence Day on March 26 in a bid to enrich the language on the Internet, media reported on Friday.
